Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Shoshone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shoshones \Sho*sho"nes\, n. pl.; sing. {Shoshone}. (Ethnol.)
A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians,
comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho
into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied
especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Shoshone
n 1: a member of the North American Indian people (related to the
Aztecs) of the southwestern United States [syn: {Shoshone},
{Shoshoni}]
2: the language spoken by the Shoshone people (belonging to the
Uto-Aztecan family) [syn: {Shoshone}]
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